wiican not loading, icon error

[JPi]

Ubuntu Maverick 10.10
> wiican
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/wiican", line 39, in <module>
    from wiican.ui import Notificator, PngAnimation
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wiican/ui/__init__.py", line 46, in <module>
    from editordlg import MappingEditorDialog
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wiican/ui/editordlg.py", line 43, in <module>
    wiican_on_icon = theme.load_icon('wiican-on', 24, 0)
glib.GError: Icon 'wiican-on' not present in theme

[J. Félix Ontañón (fontanon)]

Hi JPi,

How do you installed wiican? via tarball[1] or getdeb[2] repository?

I suspect you installed it from the tarball but did not follow the README steps about re-generating gnome icon cache. Am I wrong?

[1] http://launchpad.net/wiican/0.3/0.3.3/+download/wiican-0.3.3.tar.gz
[2] http://www.getdeb.net/software/wiican

[JPi (ajuanpi)]

Hi Felix,

Yes, I installed it from the tarball.
/wiican-0.3.3> ls
AUTHORS build data INSTALL setup.py TODO wiican.doap
bin COPYING doc po tests wiican

There is no README though, only an INSTALL file and it says nothing about re-generating gnome icon cache.
I tried this http://gleamynode.net/articles/2258/ for the default theme that seems to be the one loaded, but get the same error.

Do you know a workaround?

Thanks

[J. Félix Ontañón (fontanon)]

You got me! I was sure the instructions for re-generating the icon cache was included on the INSTALL file.

Wiican installs their icons on the "hicolor" theme, so whether you install wiican using /usr or /usr/local as prefix the workaround would be:

$ sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor

or

$ sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t /usr/share/icons/hicolor

I suppose you installed it with "sudo python setup.py install" with no prefix, so first instruction is for you.

[J. Félix Ontañón (fontanon)]

I've commited the instructions on INSTALL file:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/wiican/commit/?id=c79aa08704eca2a8ad822e9b28e2ae8b7e399105

[JPi (ajuanpi)]

Hi Felix,
Thanks for the indication. It seems that problem is fixed now, but another one pop up. I think this one is harder to solve.
Basically in apt-get for Maverick we have required gtk+ version 2.22, but the required version is 2.24
I tried downloading pygtk 2.24, but it needs pycairo to compile and pycairo doesn't have a easy_install setup file :(

The error is
> wiican

(wiican:27173): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient

(wiican:27173): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient

(wiican:27173): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient

(wiican:27173): GConf-WARNING **: haven't implemented getting a specific locale in GConfClient
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/wiican", line 325, in <module>
    launch_indicator()
  File "/usr/local/bin/wiican", line 284, in launch_indicator
    wiican = WiicanIndicator()
  File "/usr/local/bin/wiican", line 68, in __init__
    if not builder.add_from_file(WIIMOTEMANAGER_UI):
glib.GError: /usr/local/share/wiican/wiimotemanager.ui: required gtk+ version 2.24, current version is 2.22

Any hints to go through this one?

Thanks

[J. Félix Ontañón (fontanon)]

Due to the fact that this is another issue i've opened LP:871489 for dealing with it.

See you there.